'St. Elsewhere'

'St. Elsewhere'

NBC

When "St. Elsewhere" went off the air in 1988, the final episode implied that all the events of the series had taken place inside young Tommy Westphall's autistic mind, as he stared at a snow globe containing a miniature version of the hospital from the series, St. Eligius. This has spawned a theory that, due to shared fictional characters, a Tommy Westphall Universe of TV exists, which caused "St. Elsewhere" creator Tom Fontana to posit, "Someone did the math once... and something like 90 percent of all television took place in Tommy Westphall's mind. God love him." Thanks, Chad Allen. -- Andrea Reiher, Zap2It

When "St. Elsewhere" went off the air in 1988, the final episode implied that all the events of the series had taken place inside young Tommy Westphall's autistic mind, as he stared at a snow globe containing a miniature version of the hospital from the series, St. Eligius. This has spawned a theory that, due to shared fictional characters, a Tommy Westphall Universe of TV exists, which caused "St. Elsewhere" creator Tom Fontana to posit, "Someone did the math once... and something like 90 percent of all television took place in Tommy Westphall's mind. God love him." Thanks, Chad Allen. -- Andrea Reiher, Zap2It (NBC)

When "St. Elsewhere" went off the air in 1988, the final episode implied that all the events of the series had taken place inside young Tommy Westphall's autistic mind, as he stared at a snow globe containing a miniature version of the hospital from the series, St. Eligius. This has spawned a theory that, due to shared fictional characters, a Tommy Westphall Universe of TV exists, which caused "St. Elsewhere" creator Tom Fontana to posit, "Someone did the math once... and something like 90 percent of all television took place in Tommy Westphall's mind. God love him." Thanks, Chad Allen. -- Andrea Reiher, Zap2It